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Science Shorts: The Challenge of Nutrition
You have no doubt seen it in your classrooms and heard it in the news: Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States. Obesity may predispose c...
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Science 101: What kind of professional development is best for teachers?
The simple answer to this question is that it depends on your needs. For elementary and middle school teachers, though, the author has found that a hi...
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How to Create a Professional Learning Community
Devoting time to a professional learning community (PLC) can be frustrating or rewarding. The authors have experienced both of these outcomes and can ...
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Guest Editorial: The Root of the Problem
By providing opportunities for in-depth exploration of content and engagement of educators in modeling the instructional process, we will be able to f...
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Children are fascinated with large bodies of water, such as lakes and oceans. They feel the wind on their faces and observe lake and ocean water as it...
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Weather, with its built-in atmospheric laboratory, is a natural source of inquiry. The ever-changing nature of weather provides a constant source of q...
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Natural Resources: There Is a Season
You’ll gain plenty of weather resources from this month’s issue (temperature concepts, weather instruments, the water cycle/evaporation). You can ...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Cloud Watchers
Weather is a topic in science that is applicable to our lives on an everyday basis. The weather often determines what we wear, where we go, and what w...
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Since the majority of the content standards related to weather focus on forecasting, elementary students often spend a lot of time studying cloud type...
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The Early Years: Where Did the Water Go?
Everyday occurrences with evaporation are so ordinary that adults may not realize that children wonder about them and create explanations about what h...
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Science 101: What causes wind?
There’s a quick and easy answer to this question. The Sun causes wind. Exactly how the Sun causes wind takes a bit to explain. We’ll begin with wh...